Cody’s Story: DMT, Democracy, and Doing What’s Right
Colorado Psychedelic Church Podcast
Release Date: 05/16/2026
Sermon: The Wisdom Hidden Inside Old Stories
Colorado Psychedelic Church Podcast
How does the universe speak to us through the religious traditions, cultural stories, folklore, and wisdom we inherited? Teopixqui Dez introduces a new sermon series exploring the eclectic language of the universe and the truths that appear across different cultures, religions, and spiritual traditions. Although sacred texts and religious institutions can carry human agendas, Dez argues that meaningful wisdom can still be found within their stories when we approach them thoughtfully. Dez shares the Mexican folklore of los duendes, small beings said to live beneath the beds of children who...
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Beyond Set and Setting: Gv Freeman on Psychedelic Safety, Self-Sovereignty & Doing the Work
Colorado Psychedelic Church Podcast
What if “set and setting” is only a small part of psychedelic safety? Author and facilitator Gv Freeman believes we’ve outgrown the framework that has guided psychedelic culture for more than 60 years. In this thoughtful conversation, he introduces a more complete approach to healing—one that emphasizes informed consent, personal responsibility, trustworthy facilitation, preparation, activation, and the courage to change your life after the medicine shows you what’s true. Drawing from decades of recovery, therapy, spiritual practice, and years working with sacred medicines, Gv...
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Sermon: The Skills We Bring to the Divine Us
Colorado Psychedelic Church Podcast
In this sermon from the Colorado Psychedelic Church, Teopixqui Dez reflects on the end of the church’s first month in the new storefront space and the movement that has grown from two people in a basement into a thriving community in Colorado Springs. Dez opens by honoring those who are no longer physically present, reminding the congregation that their light is still carried forward through love, memory, and revelry. From there, the sermon turns toward community as a place where people can be frail, honest, wounded, and still loved. Dez shares openly about the lingering trauma of losing...
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Sermon: Taking Your Good Day Out on the World
Colorado Psychedelic Church Podcast
In this sermon from the Colorado Psychedelic Church, Teopixqui Dez speaks about the rapid growth of the community, the responsibility of protecting a safe space, and the role every congregant plays in helping others feel seen, welcomed, and loved. Dez begins with updates on sacrament, including metocin, which offers a more predictable experience similar to psilocybin while reducing nausea, as well as upcoming education on Amanita muscaria. He also reflects on the church’s growth, noting that more than 230 new members have joined in just three weeks, bringing the congregation to more than...
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Sermon: Pride, Safety, and the Boundaries of Community
Colorado Psychedelic Church Podcast
In this sermon from the Colorado Psychedelic Church, Teopixqui Dez opens with a listener note that this episode includes a difficult moment in the congregation, including raised voices and people approaching with malice in their hearts. Rather than hiding that moment, the sermon offers a real-time look at how the community works to protect the space, name what threatens it, and continue forward with honesty. Dez begins by honoring Harry, one of the church’s earliest congregants, whose loss continues to shape the church’s mission and commitment to making sure no one in the community feels...
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Sermon Recap: What Do You Bring?
Colorado Psychedelic Church Podcast
Dez gave last week's sermon feeling very under the weather, so he sat down to recap what he talked about. In this message, Teopixqui Dez explores one of humanity’s oldest truths: we were never meant to survive alone. Drawing lessons from our earliest ancestors, Dez reflects on how primitive communities overcame impossible odds not through strength, speed, or individual achievement, but through cooperation, trust, and shared purpose. From ancient hunting parties to modern struggles with depression, anxiety, and isolation, the lesson remains the same… we are strongest when we support one...
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Bjorn's Story: Religious Trauma, Military Trauma, and Learning to Let Go
Colorado Psychedelic Church Podcast
Bjorn never expected to find himself in a church. A military veteran, former Mormon, practicing pagan, and someone living with treatment-resistant depression and PTSD, he initially came to the Colorado Psychedelic Church with his wife to attend a Healing from Religious Trauma gathering. Guarded and uncertain, he soon discovered something he hadn’t found elsewhere: a genuine community where authenticity mattered more than appearances. In this deeply personal conversation with Bahn Fasa Maya, Bjorn shares his journey through military service, religious trauma, chronic pain, depression, and the...
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Sermon: Building a Home Beyond Four Walls - Celebrating the New Space!!!
Colorado Psychedelic Church Podcast
For the first sermon in the Colorado Psychedelic Church’s new home at 5028 North Academy Boulevard, Teopixqui Dez explores the power of community… what it is, what it isn’t, and why genuine connection remains one of the most powerful forces available to us. Reflecting on the church’s journey from a basement gathering to a thriving community space, Dez discusses how meaningful communities are built through action, shared responsibility, vulnerability, and a commitment to supporting one another through life’s challenges. He also introduces new opportunities available at the church,...
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Tristan's Story: Autism, Unmasking, and Mushroom Healing
Colorado Psychedelic Church Podcast
In this episode of the Colorado Psychedelic Church Podcast, Thaumaturgist Julian sits down with new congregant Tristan for a powerful conversation about autism, masking, trauma, queerness, and the deeply transformative potential of psilocybin. Tristan shares how growing up undiagnosed autistic led to shame, bullying, masking, and eventually PTSD. After years of conventional talk therapy, he found that intentional mushroom experiences helped him understand himself in ways therapy never had. From meeting different parts of his psyche during a Jack Frost journey, to confronting the cost of...
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Special Message: Why Safe Spaces Require Boundaries
Colorado Psychedelic Church Podcast
What does it mean when Dez says, “Pacifism is the privilege of the protected”? In this special message, Teopixqui Dez explores the difference between peace and apathy, and why community requires active participation when people are under threat. Drawing from a recent conversation with a visitor who questioned the church’s boundaries around safety and belonging, Dez explains why safe spaces must be willing to identify what threatens them. The discussion touches on civic engagement, voting, protest, communication, community protection, and the responsibility each person has to use their...
info_outlineIn this episode, Oracle Richard sits down with congregant Cody for a wide-ranging conversation about community, activism, psychedelics, personal healing, and what it means to keep moving forward “one thing at a time.”
Cody shares how he first connected with the Colorado Psychedelic Church after meeting Teopixqui Dez at a No Kings event in Colorado Springs. From there, he began attending Tuesday sermons, a Friday lounge night, and a Sunday DMT sacrament experience that became deeply meaningful.
Together, Oracle Richard and Cody explore Cody’s spiritual background, his departure from traditional Christian spaces, his political and social activism, his work toward creating a civic transparency app, and the way psychedelics have helped him clarify his path. Cody also reflects on DMT as a powerful experience of beauty, alignment, and accountability … one that helped him see his move to Washington, D.C. as part of a larger unfolding journey.
Timeline
00:03 — Oracle Richard introduces Cody and the purpose of inviting congregants to share their stories.
00:24 — Cody shares gratitude for the church and what it means to call the community his own.
01:05 — Cody talks about bringing brightness, living with compassion, and his motto: una cosa a la vez … one thing at a time.
03:08 — Oracle Richard asks who Cody was before finding the community.
03:40 — Cody describes a recent experience leaving a Christian church after anti-trans rhetoric from the pulpit.
06:20 — Cody explains how he met Teopixqui Dez at a No Kings event in Colorado Springs.
07:21 — Cody begins sharing his Sunday DMT sacrament experience.
08:00 — Cody recalls his first DMT experience from years earlier and how this new experience felt connected to it.
09:00 — Cody describes the first hit: geometric beauty, opening his eyes, and realizing the world around us is already the most beautiful thing.
11:16 — Cody describes the second hit: color, pattern, humor, and seeing everything as connected.
13:08 — Cody describes the third hit: gratitude, love, accountability, and the phrase una cosa a la vez returning.
16:26 — Oracle Richard reflects on the church as a stepping stone in Cody’s journey toward Washington, D.C.
17:36 — Cody explains his background in biotechnology and mushroom cultivation.
19:00 — Cody talks about finishing a business administration degree and how moving to D.C. aligns with his graduation.
21:14 — Cody discusses wages, work, and why he shifted from biotech to business.
22:00 — Cody introduces the civic transparency app he is building to make democracy easier to understand and access.
26:33 — Oracle Richard asks what politically activated Cody.
26:49 — Cody reflects on Christianity, justice, and how people in his life moved away from the values they taught him.
28:13 — Cody shares how knowing someone who was trafficked shaped his sense of responsibility.
29:00 — Cody talks about inviting others into the community and a difficult Friday night experience with someone he brought.
31:51 — Cody describes finding the kind of community he had been searching for.
34:32 — Oracle Richard reflects on the church’s role as a meaningful step in Cody’s path.
35:19 — Cody brings up Oracle Richard’s sermon and his questions about magic, change, and responsibility.
38:32 — Oracle Richard offers an agnostic perspective on big spiritual questions: we may be too small to know, so don’t worry too much.
40:07 — Cody revisits the dreamlike quality of his DMT experience.
41:07 — Oracle Richard reflects on DMT, memory, and the importance of speaking about the experience soon after revelry.
45:18 — Cody shares that after his DMT experience, he attended a meet-and-greet with local politician Joe Reagan and asked about psychedelics, veterans, PTSD, and disinformation.
46:53 — Oracle Richard honors Cody’s willingness to bring good change wherever he is.
About the Colorado Psychedelic Church
The Colorado Psychedelic Church is a spiritual community centered on healing, sacred entheogens, revelry, and meaningful connection. Through sermons, sacrament, ceremonies, open hours, and community gatherings, the church creates space for people to reconnect with themselves, with each other, and with the divine in ways that are personal, grounded, and communal.
The church emphasizes PACK Life: Protection, Acceptance, Communication, and Kairos.
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Website: ColoradoPsychedelicChurch.com
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